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The U.S. Post Office, also known as the Napa Franklin Station, is the main post office serving Napa, California. The post office was built in 1933 with funding from the Public Works Administration. Architect William H. Corlett designed the Art Deco building. The front facade of the building has three sections; the central section has six bays divided by piers with terra cotta capitals. A terra cotta cornice adorned with ram and cow heads tops the central section. The side sections, which contain the building's two entrances, feature panels with decorative eagle designs above the doorways and urn-shaped bronze light fixtures on either side. The post office's lobby features a painted bas-relief plastic ceiling, unusual in federally constructed post offices, and a terrazzo floor.The post office was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 11, 1985.The building was damaged by the 2014 South Napa earthquake. The United States Postal Service determined that repairing the building would be too costly and sold it to a developer for $2M. The developer plans to turn the building into a hotel.